FS#71530 - [brltty] split out libbrlapi?
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Opened by Neven Sajko (Neven) - Saturday, 17 July 2021, 11:06 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Thursday, 14 October 2021, 16:34 GMT
Opened by Neven Sajko (Neven) - Saturday, 17 July 2021, 11:06 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Thursday, 14 October 2021, 16:34 GMT
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It would be great if libbrlapi could be split from the
brltty package, like in Debian.
This would enable qemu to lose the dependency on brltty, and many users who only had brltty installed because qemu depends on it could be free of brltty and, especially, brltty's recursive dependencies. Libbrlapi would have comparatively minimal dependencies as a package. It's clear that most people who install qemu don't have any need for brltty. See the pkgstats package prevalence for brltty and the only two packages that depend on it: brltty 40.95 qemu 38.20 orca 15.36 Some specific packages that would no longer be required at least on my Arch system if libbrlapi was split from brltty, with the qemu package switching to depend on libbrlapi; are: * brltty * the deprecated bluez-libs * libspeechd * polkit * js78 In the case of polkit, it's not just about having an unnecessary package installed, because polkit is impossible to disable once installed. Additional info: * package versions: brltty 6.3-3, qemu 6.0.0-3 |
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Closed by David Runge (dvzrv)
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 16:34 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed via making brltty an optional dependency for qemu: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72312
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 16:34 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Fixed via making brltty an optional dependency for qemu: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72312
FS#72312will fix this.